This paper examines devotional craft among idol-makers in Kumartuli to show how sacred making operates as a relational and embodied practice that challenges secular assumptions in HCI and reorients understandings of materiality, agency, and technological mediation through lived spirituality.  [Related Paper- Forthcoming] 

This paper theorizes “collective agency” through qualitative engagements with Bangladeshi artist communities, showing how community-centered art practices challenge individualistic ethical frameworks of text-to-image AI and point toward more collective models of design, governance, and artistic ownership.  [Related Paper] 

This article conceptualizes “resilient hope” through longitudinal ethnographic work with internally displaced communities in Dhaka, showing how hope operates as a dynamic social practice that enables marginalized populations to navigate urban precarity and informs socially just design within CSCW and HCI.  [Related Paper] [Related Article]

This study presents an ethnographic account of sex workers in Bangladesh’s Daulatdia brothel, examining how stigma, limited technological access, and online risks intersect with locally situated practices of resistance and creativity, thereby extending HCI discussions on sexuality, equity, privacy, and design justice in the Global South.  [Related Paper]

This project investigates how generative text-to-image AI tools shape creative practices in Bangladesh, showing how linguistic, cultural, and representational limitations of these systems constrain marginalized artists and expose broader challenges for socially just and decolonial AI within HCI.  [Related Paper]

This project examines how ephemeral spatial arrangements in Rohingya refugee camps illuminate the ways populations in flux reinterpret and negotiate temporary urban interventions, challenging permanence-centered planning by foregrounding adaptation, negotiation, and evolving urban temporalities.  [Related Book Chapter]

The Sacrificing Cities theorizes Dhaka’s adaptive reorganization around Eid ul Adha to argue that cities in the Global South exercise urban agency through moral, infrastructural, and temporal recalibration that challenges dominant models of modern urban governance. [Related Paper] [Related Book Chapter]

This paper critically examines the impacts of social media-based business on urban residential architecture in Dhaka, Bangladesh and joins the growing body of work in critical HCI. Based on a seven-month-long qualitative empirical study in Dhaka, this paper reports how Facebook commerce (F-commerce) drives many local women to actively engage in home-based businesses, which in turn, challenges the inherent spatial regulations of modern residential architecture. [See More] [Related Paper]

This demonstration is built on the postcolonial scholar, Homi Bhabha's idea of Ambivalence and exhibits experiences of "smooth" and "rough" tactile feelings simultaneously to convey to a typical smartphone user the struggles of electronic waste (e-waste) workers when they dismantle, test, and recycle broken electronic devices. [See More] [Related Paper]

To avoid increasing traffic congestions and to achieve a global city aesthetic, recent infrastructural city development interventions in Dhaka city are focusing on transforming the sidewalks only as a street component for uninterrupted pedestrian movement. Such functionally linear thinking around sidewalks has resulted in wider roads, narrower sidewalks, evictions of street vendors and other service providers, and hence, economic and cultural marginalization of the city’s significant portion of the informal workforce. This project documents the stories from five dynamic sidewalks at five different areas of Dhaka city to make such marginalization spatially visible and provides alternative frameworks for the future development of diverse and inclusive sidewalks. [See More] [Related Paper]

POLAArizing Ray and the Collapse of Space” is speculative research into the distinct image practices of artists from different 1950s worlds: those of the Bengali writer and filmmaker Satyajit Ray and the London artists and architects who produced the exhibition Parallel of Life and Art (POLAA). [See More]

This paper joins the growing body of HCI literature that focuses on Muslim Feminism and explores the impact of online image sharing platforms on the lives of Muslim women in Bangladesh. [Related Paper]

In rural Bangladeshi domestic context, socially embedded patriarchal practices generate different forms of spatial marginalizations. Ranging from a rural household's spatial arrangements to the speculative development strategies of the rural, gender politics play a significant role in determining women's position in a spatial context. [See More]

This collaborative research explores discrepancies between the founding assumptions of mobile and ubiquitous computing in the western world and the starkly different experiences of mobility and infrastructure to be found in many post-colonial environments.[See More]

This project focuses on the climate analysis of Kutubdia, Cox’s Bazar. Analytic data of Sun-path, Dry Bulb Temperature, Relative Humidity, Psychrometric Chart, Precipitation, historical Cyclonic storm track, wind velocity and direction, tidal water level height, etc. help to understand the design challenges and opportunities of understudied contexts like this.[See More]